Ann Skeet is the senior director of leadership ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Leaders point to something, not just away from something, to describe a future ...

Daniel Raggett’s audacious RSC production sets the play in a Glaswegian pub full of thugs and has a Landlady Macbeth running the show Audiences arriving to find the RSC’s studio stage fitted out with ...

Whether you got As or Fs in high school English class, you surely remember the high points of Macbeth. The three witches. (“Double, double toil and trouble.”) Banquo’s ghost. (“Never shake thy gory ...

The horrors of Gaza make me recall a few critical lines in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. I first read this tragedy in Form Three at Naparima College. My understanding was deepened when I walked down the hill ...

House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., on Sunday defended a recent speech she delivered to the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem, torching President Biden’s "betrayal of the ...

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Marion Gibson receives funding from The Leverhulme Trust. “Out, damned spot,” Lady Macbeth famously says as she wrings her hands, attempting to remove a bloodstain her guilt-ridden mind has conjured.

If you see someone burst from the doors of a theater, spin around three times, spit over their left shoulder, and shout out a Shakespearean phrase or curse word, it’s likely they just uttered “Macbeth ...

It’s a common practice to use different styles and rhetorical devices to convey ideas, convince your audience, and achieve other personal and professional goals with your writing. One of these writing ...